Easily operated nail

ABSTRACT

An easily operated nail has a nail body. One end of the nail has a tip portion and another end thereof has a head portion, the tip being formed by metal. The tip portion of the nail body has a threaded portion; and the head portion of the nail has a driving portion. The threaded portion is made by extruding two sides of the nail body so that the metal material of the nail body deforms to form the threaded portion. The threaded portion is near the head portion of the nail body. The driving portion is one of a concave cruciform slot, a concave straight slot, a concave polygonal recess, a convex cruciform protrusion, a concave straight protrusion, and a convex polygonal protrusion. The metal is one of iron and steel.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to nails, and in particular an easilyoperated nail, which can be beaten into or pull out from a materialeasily.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Currently, for reuse of waste materials, it is required to pull nails.Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, it is illustrated that the prior art nail 10is mainly formed by a nail body 11. One end of the nail body 11 has atip portion 12 and another end thereof has a head portion 13. In use, animpact force is applied to the head portion 13 so that the tip portion12 is beaten into a wood.

However the head portion 13 is embedded into the wooden. Currently, theoperation of beating nails is formed by electric nail drivers so thatthe nail is beaten into the wood deeply, as shown in FIG. 2. As a resultit is very difficult to pull the nail out of the wood.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, the primary object of the present invention is to providean easily operated nail, which can be beaten into or pull out from amaterial easily.

To achieve above objects, the present invention provides an easilyoperated nail, wherein the nail has a nail body. One end of the nail hasa tip portion and another end thereof has a head portion, the tip beingformed by metal. The tip portion of the nail body has a threadedportion; and the head portion of the nail has a driving portion. Thethreaded portion is made by extruding two sides of the nail body so thatthe metal material of the nail body deforms to form the threadedportion. The threaded portion is near the head portion of the nail body.The driving portion is one of a concave cruciform slot, a concavestraight slot, a concave polygonal recess, a convex cruciformprotrusion, a concave straight protrusion, and a convex polygonalprotrusion. The metal is one of iron and steel.

The various objects and advantages of the present invention will be morereadily understood from the following detailed description when read inconjunction with the appended drawing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the prior art nail.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the prior art nail.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing the use of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In order that those skilled in the art can further understand thepresent invention, a description will be described in the following indetails. However, these descriptions and the appended drawings are onlyused to cause those skilled in the art to understand the objects,features, and characteristics of the present invention, but not to beused to confine the scope and spirit of the present invention defined inthe appended claims.

Referring to FIGS. 3 and 5, the structure of the present invention isillustrated.

In FIG. 3, it is shown that the nail 20 of the present invention is madeof metal material (for example, irons or steel). The nail 20 has a nailbody 21. One end of the nail 20 has a tip portion 22 and another endthereof has a head portion 23. The tip portion 22 and the head portion23 are same as those in the prior arts and thus the details will not bedescribed herein.

The feature of the present invention is that the tip portion of the nailbody 21 has a threaded portion 24. The head portion 23 of the nail 20has a driving portion 25.

The threaded portion 24 is made by extruding two sides of the nail body21 so that the metal material of the nail body 21 deforms to form thethreaded portion 24.

It is preferable that the threaded portion 24 is near the head portion23 of the nail body 21.

The driving portion 25 is a concave cruciform slot or a concave straightslot, or a concave polygonal recess, or a convex cruciform protrusion,or a concave straight protrusion, or a convex polygonal protrusion, asshown in FIG. 5.

In use of the nail 20 of the present invention, as the prior art nail,the head portion 23 can be impacted by a nail driver so that the tipportion 22 will impinge into a wooden material. Thus, the nail 20 isbeaten into the wooden material. Then when it is desired to pull thenail 20 out, as shown in FIG. 4, a rotating means can be engaged to thedriving portion 25. Then, the nail body 21 is driven to rotate. Then thenail body 21 will retract along the threaded portion 24 so that the headportion 23 protrudes out of the wooden surface. Then the nail body 21can be pull out.

Thereby the present invention provides a structure so that the nail canbe beaten into or detached from a material easily.

The present invention is thus described, it will be obvious that thesame may be varied in many ways. Such variations are not to be regardedas a departure from the spirit and scope of the present invention, andall such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art areintended to be included within the scope of the following claims.

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 6. An easily operated nail comprising: a nail bodyformed by metal, the nail body comprising: a tip portion; a threadedportion; the threaded portion containing all threads on the nail and allspaces between the threads: and the threaded portion having at least oneflat surface without threads, any flat surface being not connected toanother flat surface; a non-threaded portion; and a head portion being adriving portion for engaging a tool for driving the nail; and whereinthe head portion being near the threaded portion and the non-threadedportion is located between the threaded portion and the tip portion;wherein the non-threaded portion is directly connected to the tipportion; and no thread is formed on the non-threaded portion and the tipportion.
 7. The easily operated nail as claimed in claim 1, whereinthere are two flat surfaces at the threaded portion of the tip portion.8. The easily operated nail as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drivingportion is one of a concave cruciform slot, a concave straight slot, aconcave polygonal recess, a convex cruciform protrusion, a concavestraight protrusion, and a convex polygonal protrusion.
 9. The easilyoperated easily operated nail as claimed in claim 1, wherein the metalis one of iron and steel.